Wouldn’t the seat belt still stop you? Also I think you meant 120 km/h. This thing ain’t doing 120 mph probably

Why? It’s a proper noun.

That’s what I actually said 2 comments up too. It would also eliminate over 500k EUR a month in MP salaries in my country, so we could just use that to fund science or culture or something. Or just have more buffer so there’s less need to raise taxes again.

I’m not a USian, but I do know how their jury duty works. Yeah, it’s been over a decade since I last went to history class, I’d completely forgotten about this system and I guess I don’t think outside of the box enough to come up with it myself. There are some negatives I can think of, but some few positives too.

Here’s my biggest concern, and I’m hoping that maybe you have an answer: Outside of the US, MOST people who get into politics are at least decently educated. MOST voters prefer intelligent and well-educated candidates. Most of them, not all of course. If everyone is eligible and there’s no filtering happening, a bunch of honest to god dumbfucks might be chosen by random chance. You COULD give it an education requirement, but then a lot of otherwise intelligent and well-meaning people who didn’t finish school for one reason or another, are disqualified. IQ tests can have unwanted cultural, racial and socioeconomic biases. How do you make sure that there aren’t too many ridiculously unqualified people chosen, without outright imposing requirements that could be unfair?

And what’s the system where people are in power without elections?

Without elections you get to have kings and emperors. Unless you go full on direct democracy which actually is becoming more feasible thanks to the Internet I guess?

I’m specifically mentioning Tesla because China allowed them to silence critics to protect their business interests. Yes, I know that it was done so that Chinese companies could learn from them and later surpass them in making EVs. I wouldn’t call BYD and the like great cars, but neither is Tesla and Tesla still has the gall to charge an arm and a leg for a motorized smart refrigerator.

Some dairy industry execs were imprisoned and/or executed to save face so that’s nice, but parents were also detained for trying to bring attention to the matter in the big formula scandal. Some said that doctors told them to keep quiet.

Business interests go above human rights in China and if a rich person is imprisoned or executed, it’s so the “communists” could save face after a scandal. Normally they’re completely fine with billionaires existing for some reason.

Smells very “corporations are people too” to me. Like the US, but with better infrastructure because Americans can’t even get that right.

I’m hoping that the original author of the image (likely a snap or snap story) was kidding. Perhaps they were already together a long time before this and it’s just an inside joke. Otherwise, the “…” at the end signals disappointment in what I must say seems like an awesome first date experience? Girl doesn’t want to go to a super expensive restaurant, is cute, and isn’t afraid of eating pizza without cutlery in front of her date? First impression: She seems awesome.

China in the 21st century is getting farther and farther from communism. Hell, they protected TESLA from concerned citizens. Not just a corporation, but a foreign corporation.

Yes, and all are equal, but some more equal. Particularly, anyone that was part of the administration of the soviet union was more equal than anyone not close to the administration.

Administration needs to be humanless.

They’re building Rail Baltica to connect the Baltics to the rest of Europe via rail, but riding it will cost more than a plane trip and take longer. Aviation needs to be more expensive for rail to even be competitive.

Fuck it, I haven’t watched any anime in like a decade and a half. Where can I stream or download this with English subtitles?

Edit: That website links to Crunchyroll which I hear is controversial, but it has the episodes, so I’mma watch it

They make one shitty SUV. They must’ve learned something from Porsche because the shitty SUVs got Porsche out of financial trouble and now they can use that money to keep on building 911s and Caymans and shit, instead of building cars for Mercedes and Audi to keep their sports car business.

The supercars are marketing for the SUVs and the SUVs pay for the R&D for the supercars.

I was wondering how they would make their EV different from every other high performance EV. The suspension setup seems quite interesting and the ridiculous amount of regen braking will be awesome for spirited driving, though I’m still not entirely sure that this thing can have the true Ferrari feel. But it’s irrelevant because I’ll never be able to afford one anyway.

Love it. Dude’s just enjoying his life and he’s definitely earned it.

Which sucks because I can’t describe myself as a bear on Tinder anymore. Despite having literal bearmode body and being hairy at that.

It could also be a gay venue or something.

But also Ian McKellen is quite public about being gay, isn’t he? So essentially if you’ve ever fantasized about being topped by Gandalf… The chance is small, but not zero.

It’s the most wonderful time of the yeee

Paper Skies on YouTube has a lot of videos about soviet aircraft littered with cool facts. The supersonic booze carrier, the gun that was so powerful it could stall the plane carrying it…

That sounds like the best set of cast iron.